Top Gun: Highway to the sequel zone

Just when you thought you were safe from yet another Tom Cruise sequel (though Mission Impossible IV isn’t even out yet) the internet is abuzz with reports that Top Gun 2 may be in the works.

The only good to possibly come of this seeing hipsters everywhere ditch their aviator sunglasses as they recoil at the thought of being associated with big-budget Hollywood.

Vulture reports on Cruise’s possible involvement:

Maverick would be confused and slightly depressed by the state of Top Gun these days, anyway. Last June, at a junket for Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Bruckheimer let slip that he had been “recently approached again to start talking about [a sequel]” but noted that “the aviation community has completely changed since we made the movie a long time ago.” Since 1986, the TOPGUN syllabus has been changed so the focus is far less on the spectacular and dramatic air-to-air dogfights that defined Top Gun and far more about teaching U.S. pilots to drop very large bombs on very small ground targets.

But we’re told by a source close to the project that McQuarrie — who is friendly with Cruise — has found a way to incorporate Maverick, and what’s more, we hear that Cruise has agreed to take a smaller role in the film, provided it’s not too “obvious” a part, i.e. Lieutenant Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell as grizzled Top Gun flight instructor. (read more)